Gerry McGhee
Gerry McGhee
Gerald Damian "Gerry" McGhee is a Scottish singer who best known for being the lead vocalist for the Canadian glam metal band Brighton Rock...
arrived home totally
When we arrived on the scene, the home was totally involved.
contained days hooked hotel inn kept mostly side south until water
Days Inn didn't have much damage. It was mostly contained to the truck. We did evacuate the south side of the hotel and kept water on it until we could get foam hooked up so we could put out the fire. We had to use 30 gallons of foam to put out the fire.
bullets cans caused causing fire garage heat multiple paint
He had some bullets and paint cans in the back of the garage and the heat and fire caused them to go off causing multiple explosions.
battery cause checked determined fire lawn left
He had told us that he had left a battery charger on a lawn mower and we checked it out and determined that the cause of the fire started around the lawn mower. It could have been the battery charger being plugged up so long or the battery itself.
ahead bad best came chris close company conclusion decided feet gas interest leaking pipe pulled safe school talked three together until water work
A construction company was doing some work at the school and they pulled up a big, two-inch gas pipe that was leaking real bad and was real close to the school. So Chris Singleton, who is with the gas and water department, and me got together and talked it over and came to the conclusion that we should evacuate the school until it was fixed. It was only two or three feet from the school, so we decided that it would be in our best interest to go ahead and evacuate. We didn't think anything would happen, but you never know. We just wanted to be on the safe side.
everybody gas leak major radios spark turn
When you've got a major gas leak like that everybody working around it has to turn their radios off and everything else off because any kind of little spark would ignite it.
asked blown days door eat fire flames guy hotel inn knocked left ran shooting talked tank time top totally truck
We don't know how the fire started. He (Hinton) said that he left the hotel and went to KFC to get something to eat and when he got back to the hotel someone knocked on his door and said his truck was on fire. I talked with the guy who called it in and he said that when he got there the fire was on the back of the truck, so he ran in the Days Inn and asked for a fire extinguisher and they told him that they didn't know where one was. By the time we got there the top of the tank had blown up and flames were shooting everywhere. The truck was totally engulfed.